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9. "You know, honey, us colored folks is branches without roots and that makes things come round in queer ways." (pg. 16)

The "colored" people don't have anything to support them because they have no roots and they can't grow and move on without roots. It could mean that Janie is somehow different because she is the pear tree. She is the only one with roots and other branches coming off of her.